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The initial findings of Amnesty International’s recent detention centre visits, reiterate the organisation’s long held position that the indefinite and prolonged detention of asylum seekers in Australia is a failed policy that contravenes human rights standards.
The most serious and damaging conditions faced by asylum seekers in immigration detention are the length of time and the [...]

We’d like to invite you to think a bit harder this Christmas.
It seems to me that there’s a part of the story of Jesus’ birth that we seldom dwell on, and we’d like to help your community enter into it.
If you’re willing.
A few weeks ago I participated in a conversation that gave rise to the [...]

Bold article from Elenie Poulos from Uniting Justice
 
Australian Christians and non-Christians alike are grieving the loss of a moral heart in our country. I have heard countless expressions of disillusionment, sadness and shame over the politics of border control.
Many are angry and may well be inclined to join the ancient chorus and say “Amen” to [...]

[ June 19, 2011; ] World Refugee Day Rally- End Mandatory Detention- Sunday 21st June

The World Refugee Day Rally has been an annual event for the last few years. It is run by the Refugee Advocacy Network which we (the JIM unit) are a member of and is happening this Sunday the 21st of June (sorry for the late notice) [...]

I trust you all saw my links/tweets to this and my short hand of the latest cruel politicising of  asylum seekers through punitive cheap points scoring policy? If not here are the links to what the UCA said and an excellent clip from JB3 on the issue.
 
Media release: Uniting Church objects to plans to re-open [...]

This is a brilliant prophetic Leunig from last Sat The Age.
(in case you cant read it)
If I were a refugee
What a nice one I would be.
Not in need of gliding.
My traumas would be character building.
 
The wars that overturned my life;
Atrocities and endless strife
And persecution hateful,
Would have taught me to be grateful.
 
I’d have no breaking point [...]

[ November 7, 2010; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Justice for Refugees: End Mandatory Detention
Rally and March
2pm, Sunday, 7 November
State Library, corner Swanston and Latrobe Streets, Melbourne

The Refugee Advocacy Network, the coalition that organised the World Refugee Day march in Melbourne on 20 June, has called another mass rally and march for Sunday, 7 November.

The focus of the rally will be to call for an [...]

Hi Guys, below is all the great work from uniting justice on some of the issues and things to think about leading up to the 2010 election. I have copied the page in full because it could do with a couple of home plus less clicks for you. I will have some hard [...]